linguistics

2. Rate the likelihood of word final t-d deletion in the following data based on the preceding sounds. Give the word where deletion may occur and then indicate high or low. Best to answer in a table. (3) a) We’d have either beans on toast or toasted teacake. (YRK/001) b) They stopped making bricks. (YRK/087) c) My husband came to drive the cattle lorry. (YRK/002) d) We handcuffed somebody to somebody in a pub in York once. (YRK/079) e) We got involved with a big exhibition. (YRK/087) f) I went to a school call Park Grove. (YRK/086) 3. Spotting morphosyntactic variation [069] Oh okay, so you’ll notice on the four-hundred when you’re driving North, there are subdivisions from- you-know it’s a half-hour drive and- or forty-five minutes and it- there’s forty- five minutes of houses. And when I was a kid going up there when I was ten, it was forest. All of it. Farms and forest. [7] So it’s just boomed. [069] It’s just oh, it’s completely changed. ... Oh yeah, I mean the development in this city is- in the city it’s- itself yeah, big- big time development. Like I saw the, the Bata Shoe Museum go up. I mean, there’s like a condo, at least like- I don’t know, thirty condos every year go up. All the- around the Skydome, I saw the Skydome go up. The- the exhibition stadium get knocked down. Like yeah it’s- there’s a lot of things- and it’s weird because you actually like forget. “Oh what was that building that was there? I have no idea.” And you just sort-of ... [7] You accept the changes. [069] Oh you have to, yeah. And you know lots of buildings- and it’s sad because there’s a lot of beautiful buildings that get torn down, which are really- and this is- I guess when- I guess people- what people don’t realize about the city is that it is a very liv– living- like people live here, it’s a very suburban city in a way.